Driveway Reflectors--An Inexpensive Golf Training Tool

If you watch the pros, you'll notice a lot of them have yellow or orange striped sticks to warm-up with. Well, the secret is these striped sticks are really just driveway reflectors that can be found at hardware stores such as Lowe's and Home Depot for about $1.99. They are great when hitting balls on the range, or when warming-up for a tournament. They are light-weight, and you can easily carry them in your bag. Below is a list of how to use them:

• With one stick, you can either line up your feet by setting the stick just in front of your toes and aiming it just left of the target, or put it outside your clubhead and aim it just to the right of the target.
• With two sticks, you can either put one to line up your toes and the other to line up your clubhead, or put one just inside your clubhead and the other just outside your clubhead.
• If you have two, you can work on a fade by either aiming the stick in front of your toes a little more to the left, and keep the one just outside your clubhead aimed at the target, or you can also put one stick on the inside of your clubhead and one on the ouside and aim them both just a little left of the target, but keep the face open a little. You can also do the opposite to work on your draw.

Something else you can do is use these sticks for a putting drill.

• Putting Drill: Put your stick about one and a half feet behind the hole and try putting three balls and keep each one between the hole and the stick. This is a great drill for working on your pace.

These sticks are very useful, and I recommend you pick up at least one.